2021 is about to pass, it is time to take stock of the best time of the year, recently Xinhua News Agency Sports Department selected the 2021 China's top ten athletes, eight Olympic champions together with athletics star Su Bingtian and winter sports gu Ailing were elected, the top ten athletes in 2021 Chinese sports are: Tokyo Olympic first gold medalist Yang Qian, diving double champion Shi Tingmao, table tennis Olympic champion Ma Long, shot put famous Gong Lijiao, weightlifting Olympic champion Lu Xiaojun, swimming Olympic champions Zhang Yufei and Wang Shun, Olympic badminton women's singles champion Chen Yufei, "Asian flyer" Su Bingtian and freestyle ski world champion Gu Ailing. It can also be seen from the athletes selected that most of them are athletes who won this year's Tokyo Olympic Games, and Su Bingtian and Gu Ailing were successfully elected because they made great breakthroughs in their respective projects. The top ten athletes come from athletics, diving, swimming, table tennis, badminton, weightlifting, skiing and other sports, of which two are selected for both athletics and swimming.
In 2021, the national table tennis team that won a big victory in the Olympic Games, the World Table Tennis Championships, and the World Cup Finals was only selected by captain Ma Long, which is more or less unexpected, the Olympic "double champion" Chen Meng, the World Table Tennis Championships men's and women's singles champions Fan Zhendong, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha, who has been repeatedly praised by the central media, have not been selected, which has subjective factors and objective reasons. Because this year is the Olympic year, so the Olympic champion is the prerequisite for the top ten athletes, Fan Zhendong, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha three have made a huge breakthrough in their respective projects, the world's first Fan Zhendong won the World Table Tennis Championships, the World Cup Finals and the National Games Men's Singles Champion, the results are far more outstanding than Ma Long, but in the most important Olympic games, Fan Zhendong lost to Ma Long in the final, and Ma Long became the first player in the history of table tennis to win the men's singles gold medal. Such achievements can not be surpassed by anyone for a long time in the future, and its significance is of great significance, and it is reasonable that Fan Zhendong was not selected.
Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha both made breakthroughs this year, Wang Manyu won the women's singles gold medal of the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time, and Sun Yingsha won the World Cup finals, especially Sun Yingsha, her results this year are very stable, and is the "anti-Japanese" hero of the national table tennis women's team, in the Tokyo Olympic Games, Sun Yingsha twice cut off the biggest enemy of the national table tennis women's team, Ito Mimachi, poured out the arrogance of the other party, it can be said that the number one hero of the national table tennis team won a big victory in the Olympic Games. She was also praised by a number of central media, including the People's Daily, and thought that Sun Yingsha would have the opportunity to be selected as one of the top ten athletes, but in the end she regretted not being selected. Although Sun Yingsha's results have been stable throughout the year, but her failure to win the championship is a major injury, plus the national table tennis has ma Long shortlisted for the top ten athletes, Sun Yingsha's failure is also a reasonable thing. Olympic "double champion" Chen Meng also lost the election, although won two Olympic gold medals, but Chen Meng's performance this year is obviously not as good as last year, losing is also commonplace, although there are two Olympic gold medals in hand, but her overall performance is not good, not selected as the best athlete is normal.
Chinese sports this year has achieved brilliant results, especially in the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese sports delegation has achieved the best results of the last two Olympic Games, there are many athletes with outstanding performance, the top ten athletes are originally the best of the best, in addition, we must also take into account the wide range of sports, although the overall performance of national table tennis players is very outstanding, but other sports also have excellent athletes, one person selected as one of the top ten athletes is already an affirmation of the performance of the national table tennis. The Chinese diving team also achieved very good results in the Tokyo Olympic Games, but only Shi Tingmao was shortlisted for the top ten athletes, and the "popularity king" Quan Hongchan was not selected as one of the top ten athletes, and the selection of the top ten athletes was to take into account many factors, and there were also many athletes participating in the competition, and the competition was definitely very fierce. Not only many famous national table tennis players will lose the top ten athletes, but also many Olympic champions in other sports, we look forward to the national table tennis players in next year's various events have a better performance, next year's top ten athletes more national table tennis players selected.